Children’s and theater café Dubbel in Meppel recently has a new neighbor. Two Turkish lovebirds have made a nest outside on the windowsill of the old attic. And that nest is now filled with two eggs.
“You would say: every bird lays an egg in May. But no, in March we already have it,” laughs Myrthe Lugtmeier, owner of the café. She expects the eggs to hatch in about fourteen days. Possibly just in time for Easter.
The café has a special setting: an old grain warehouse from 1800, where theater and music can be enjoyed downstairs and children can play freely upstairs. “The children are already aware of the pigeons and their nest, because we made an Instagram post.”
“They all want to see it, but unfortunately that is not possible,” Lugtmeier warns. “It is not yet safe here in the attic, and of course we also want to protect the animals.”
The Turkish turtle doves are special to hear and see. “My father knows a lot about it. They both have the same call, both the male and the female. It sounds a bit like ‘I love you’. Only the female’s call is higher and the male’s is lower,” Lugtmeier explains.
To allow everyone to enjoy the pigeons, there will soon be a live stream of the nest. “We are going to keep everyone informed. Then people can see the stork when they are born,” Lugtmeier jokes. “And of course everyone can think about what the babies will be called.”
